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Thank You for Coming!

Thanks to those students and parents who attended our Family Reading, Food, and Fun night on January 20th.  The minutes that we read jumpstarted our Jazz Reading minutes competition and gave everyone a chance to listen to stories read by parents and staff members.  Keep your eyes open for the next Title One Parent Night!

Click here to find out the great things that Title 1 brings to our school.

Kindergarten Links

Provo School District is now offering parenting classes. Click here for the latest flyer in English and here for one in Spanish.

We sincerely appreciate the generosity of the Department of Workforce.  They have given Provost a grant to use for its after-school and before-school programs.  These programs give extra academic help and expand the horizons of students by offering them a chance to try new hobbies and talents.

Hello and Welcome to Provost! You have found the webpage of one of the BEST elementary schools in Utah-- a gem school of the Provo community.  The teaching and support staff is one of the most experienced and innovative; here students truly receive a world class education. Students have a wide variety of activities to choose from, including ballroom, school musical, chess club, running club, choir, orchestra, and storytelling, just to name a few.  We love our students and greatly appreciate the excellent support of our parents and patrons!  Thanks, Dr. Oliverson     Ayuda en español disponsible: Lunes a Jueves: 8:00am a 9:00am 11:00am a 12:00pm 2:30pm a 3:30pm Viernes 8:00am a 8:30 am 10:30am a 11:30am

Upcoming Events February 3 Character Counts 2pm   -Annual Title 1 Make-It and Take-It night @ Farrer Elem. 5 Applications for Science Fair due 12 No School Teacher Holiday 15 No School President's Day 22 Spelling Bee Assembly 9am 25 Science Fair 26 The Magic of Reading Assembly 12:35 March 2-6 Teacher Appreciation Week 3 Spring Pictures 5 Dads and Donuts 12:45-1:15 18-19 SEP Conferences 23 District Choir Festival @ Provo Tabernacle 7pm April 1-2 Willy Wonka 7pm

Provost Students Hit 1 Million Mark

Provost Elementary School, with 437 students, read a combined total of 1,010,119 minutes starting from the first day of school, August 19, 2009 to December 18, 2009, equaling an average of 2,311.5 minutes read per student and about an average of 19 minutes of reading every single day per student. Provost Elementary has worked successfully to instill a strong tradition and love of reading and literacy within each student attending. By providing multiple incentives for reaching reading goals, Provost has been able encourage many different types of students to not only increase their personal reading time, but add to reading time with their family as well.

"We really wanted to make reading a life-long tradition for our students," said Stephany Ricci, Provost Elementary School’s Facilitator. "We also wanted to strive hard for parent involvement in literacy too."

Provost Elementary provides extra resources to improve student achievement in all other areas in addition to reading, including assistance to all students seeking help with homework before and after school. Please call Provost Elementary School at 801-374-4960 for details on the many exceptional programs offered to students there

Provost Recognized as a High Performing School!!!

The Utah State Office of Education chose Provost Elementary in Provo School District as a Title 1 High Performing School for 2008 – 2009. That means this elementary school has achieved Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) under the No Child Left Behind Act in both Language Arts and Mathematics for the past two consecutive years, reached or exceeded the Utah state average in Language Arts and Mathematics on the most recent Criterion Reference Tests, and was nominated by Superintendent Randy Merrill as a high performing school.

"This is not an easy accomplishment for Title 1 Schools," said Barbara Graves, Provo School District’s Title 1 Coordinator. "The entire district appreciates and recognizes Principal Oliverson and his wonderful staff who worked so hard to help Provost’s students perform at these amazing levels."

Yearbook News

Provost's yearbooks will be better than ever this year!  They will still be full-color with pictures of all of the students, including those that moved in later in the year and those that have since moved out.  The price will be $12 before March 1st and $15 after that.  Hurry and buy your copy today so that you will not be trying to get a copy when we are all sold out!!!!

2 Provost Students make the Semi-finals at Dancesport!!!

Barrett and Gabrielle, two 5th graders from Provost, competed in the BYU Dancesport competition held at the BYU Wilkinson Center on November 13-14.  They competed in the Cha-cha competition and went up against about 70 other couples, some of which were middle school students. They went through 3 rounds before they were cut during the semi-final round.  Even though they learned a cha-cha routine during Ballroom class, they improvised so that the judges would not know exactly what to expect. 

Barrett and Gabi learned how to dance during the Ballroom dance classes offered as part of Provost's afterschool program.  Barrett has been learning Ballroom dance for about 3 years, starting before the minimum grade because his older brother was already in it and they needed boys. This is Gabi's first year in learning ballroom dance and she was very nervous in front of the judges during the competition. She said that it is not really difficult to dance with someone who is shorter then her.

Health Insurance

Do your children have health insurance?  Click here to learn more at www.utahchip.org.

Parenting Classes offered by Provo School District

Are you interested in being a better parent?  Do you want to find out more information on successfully helping your child's behavior?  The Provo School District offers once a month free parenting classes that often have Spanish translation and babysitting available. Take advantage of this great resource by clicking here for a schedule of upcoming topics.

Lunch-money Payments Online

Provo school district is pleased to announce that your child's lunch account can now be accessed online. This will give you much more control over payments and help you to manage the balances better. You can link to it from the home page of any elementary school by clicking on the "Child Nutrition" link in the Quick Links menu. You can begin by setting up your account here.

Provost Fiesta

Provost Elementary School celebrated Hispanic Heritage Month in September with its popular annual Family Fiesta. There was plenty of good food, music and dancing, piñatas and valuable information available for parents.  The salsa cook off competition was a success with lots of yummy family recipes for all to try.  Congratulations goes out to Mr. Brace, one of our fifth grade teachers who took the grand champion prize for the best salsa!  This celebration also served as the kick off for a new year of before and after school programs and our annual Title 1 meeting. We look forward to celebrating again next year with all of our families that represent many cultures from around the world.  The Provost community is proud of the diversity that we share!

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